Nataliia Tkachuk

Associate Professor

ORCID ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0668-7953

Date of Birth: November 10, 1972

Education:

  • 1989-1994: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology, majoring in “Teacher of German and English”, graduated with honors.

Postgraduate Studies:

  • 1997-2000: Lviv Ivan Franko National University, postgraduate studies with detachment from production in “Germanic Languages”, Department of German Philology, supervised by Associate Professor Tetiana Mykolaivna Struk;
  • 2002-2008: Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen (Germany), postgraduate studies without detachment from production, supervised by Prof. Jürgen Pafel.

Academic Degree:

  • October 2008: defense of dissertation for the degree of Dr. phil, Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen (Germany), with the assessment magna cum laude.

Professional Experience:

  • 1994-1995: Senior Laboratory Assistant, Department of German Philology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University;
  • 1995-1997: Assistant, Department of German Philology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University;
  • 2001-2010: German Language Teacher, BruderhausDiakonie, Reutlingen (Germany);
  • 2010-2013: Research Fellow at the Institute of German Studies, University of Stuttgart (Germany);
  • 2014-2016: Speech Development Methodologist, Municipal Department of Education and Upbringing, Tübingen (Germany);
  • 2016-2018: German Language Teacher, Educational Center of the German Academy for Personnel Development (Deutsche Angestelltenakademie), Reutlingen (Germany);
  • Since October 2018: Assistant at the Department of German Philology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

Scholarships:

  • October 2000 – July 2001: German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/ DAAD) scholarship, research internship at the University of Tübingen (Germany);
  • January 2002 – April 2002: Hans Seidel Foundation (Hans-Seidel-Stiftung, Germany) scholarship, research internship at the University of Tübingen (Germany).

Volunteering:

  • 2001-2018: Ukrainian School at the Parish of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of St. Basil the Great in Stuttgart (Germany), school teacher, organizer of parish and school events;
  • 2002-2006: Municipality of Tübingen (Germany), translator for conversations with Ukrainian and Russian-speaking residents of the city on child matters.

Research Interests:

  • Temporality in Modern German and other languages;
  • Syntax of Modern German;
  • Morphology of Modern German;
  • Comparative grammar of German and Ukrainian;
  • Grammar of constructions in modern linguistics;
  • Methodology of teaching German as a foreign language (with emphasis on temporal constructions/forms).

Languages Spoken: Ukrainian, Russian, German, English.